Example: Please help me organize my work folder

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Claude Cowork

A desktop AI assistant that helps you with programming, file management, and any task you can describe.

It is fully compatible with the exact same configuration as Claude Code, which means you can run it with any Anthropic-compatible large language model.

✨ No Claude Max subscription required - Supports any Anthropic-compatible API model, including Zhipu GLM 4.7, MiniMax 2.1, Moonshot Kimi, DeepSeek, and more.

Not just a GUI.

A real AI collaboration partner.

No need to learn the Claude Agent SDK — just create tasks and choose execution paths.

✨ Why Claude Cowork?

Claude Code is powerful — but it only runs in the terminal.

That means:

❌ No visual feedback for complex tasks
❌ Hard to track multiple sessions
❌ Tool outputs are inconvenient to inspect

Open Claude Cowork solves these problems:

🖥️ Runs as a native desktop application
🤖 Acts as your AI collaboration partner for any task
🔁 Reuses your existing ~/.claude/settings.json
🧠 100% compatible with Claude Code

If Claude Code works on your machine — Open Claude Cowork works too.

🚀 Quick Start

💡 Tip: This app is fully compatible with Claude Code configuration. No Claude Max subscription needed - you can use Zhipu GLM, MiniMax, Kimi, DeepSeek, or any other Anthropic-compatible API model.

Before using Open Claude Cowork, make sure Claude Code is installed and properly configured.

Option 1: Download a Release

👉 Go to Releases

Option 2: Build from Source

#### Prerequisites

Bun or Node.js 22+
Claude Code installed and authenticated

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/caiqinghua/open-claude-cowork.git
cd open-claude-cowork
Install dependencies
bun install
Configure environment (copy .env.example to .env)
cp .env.example .env
Run in development mode
bun run dev
Or build production binaries
bun run dist:mac    # macOS
bun run dist:win    # Windows
bun run dist:linux  # Linux

🧠 Core Capabilities

🤖 AI Collaboration Partner — Not Just a GUI

Open Claude Cowork is your AI partner that can:

Write and edit code — in any programming language
Manage files — create, move, and organize
Create PPTs — generate presentation content and structure
Topic analysis — in-depth analysis of research themes and directions
Article writing — write various types of articles and documents
Do anything — as long as you can describe it in natural language

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📂 Session Management

Create sessions with custom working directories
Resume any previous conversation
Complete local session history (stored in SQLite)
Safe deletion and automatic persistence

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🎯 Real-Time Streaming Output

Token-by-token streaming output
View Claude’s reasoning process
Markdown rendering with syntax-highlighted code
Visualized tool calls with status indicators

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🔐 Tool Permission Control

Explicit approval required for sensitive actions
Allow or deny per tool
Interactive decision panels
Full control over what Claude is allowed to do

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🔁 Fully Compatible with Claude Code

Open Claude Cowork shares configuration with Claude Code.

It directly reuses:

text ~/.claude/settings.json

This means:

Same API keys
Same base URL
Same models
Same behavior

Supported models include:

Zhipu GLM 4.7
MiniMax 2.1
Moonshot Kimi
DeepSeek
All other Anthropic-compatible API models

> Configure Claude Code once — use it everywhere.

🔧 Troubleshooting

better-sqlite3 Module Error

If you encounter an error like:

Error: The module was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 127. This version of Node.js requires NODE_MODULE_VERSION 140.

This happens because Electron bundles its own Node.js version and native modules need to be recompiled for it.

Solution:

# Install electron-rebuild as a dev dependency
npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
Rebuild better-sqlite3 for Electron
npx electron-rebuild -f -w better-sqlite3
Run the app again
bun run dev

This ensures that native modules are compiled against Electron's Node.js version rather than your system's Node.js version.

🧩 Architecture Overview

| Layer | Technology | | ---------------- | ------------------------------ | | Framework | Electron 39 | | Frontend | React 19, Tailwind CSS 4 | | State Management | Zustand | | Database | better-sqlite3 (WAL mode) | | AI | @anthropic-ai/claude-agent-sdk | | Build | Vite, electron-builder |

🛠 Development

bash

Start development server (hot reload)

bun run dev

Type checking / build

bun run build

🗺 Roadmap

Planned features:

GUI-based configuration for models and API keys
🚧 More features coming soon

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🤝 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.

Fork this repository
Create your feature branch
Commit your changes
Open a Pull Request

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⭐ Final Words

If you’ve ever wanted:

A persistent desktop AI collaboration partner
Visual insight into how Claude works
Convenient session management across projects

This project is built for you.

👉 If it helps you, please give it a Star.

License

MIT

--- Tranlated By Open Ai Tx | Last indexed: 2026-03-02 ---

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